, 1887-08-13
AFTER THE WRECK.
Terrible Scenes at the Chats
worth Disaster
In the Search for Missing Rel
atives and Friends.
Full List of the Wounded Not
Yet Known.
A Million Dollar Fire In Pitts
burg, Pa.
The Horrors OF the wreck.

CHATswoRTH, Aug. l2-The horrors
of the Chatsworth wreck seem deepening
this morning instead OF l~essening. Add
ed to the pitiable spectacle of the dead
and the miseries OF the dying, a stencil
sickenly foul was issuing from all the nu
merous places where the corpses were,
and no picture of the horrible occurrences
Immediately succeeding the accident
could equal in revolving details the scene
at the depot here to day.
The west end of the structure is a coal
house and lumber room, where promiscu-
ously stretched on the floor in the coal
and rubbish are seven identified bodies.
The awful odor coming from the bodies
kept the room clear of all but the hardest
of the still lingering curious or anxious
crowds. Two of the victims were women
and the sight of their faces was one never
to be forgotten.
President Leonard, Superintendent
Armstrong and other officials were seen
this morning. MIR. Leonard said as near
as could be asccrtained the train was
making about thirty miles an hour at the
time of the accident not an excessive
rate of speed, as the track was in good
condition. The bridge an ordinary IF
teen foot wooden structure, was all right
at 5 o'clock IN the afternoon, when a
tram passed over it, and half an hour
later section men inspected it.
CHICAGO, Aug. l2.-The Inter Oceans
Forest, Ills, special says: The names of
the dead victims of the Chatsworth dis
aster have been learned. There are still
about ten bodies unidentified at that
place. During Thursday afternoon
scores OF the dead were conveyed west
ward by friends, and they cannot be in,
cluded in the names given. Officers OF
the Toledo, Peoria Il Western road have
endeavored to keep a record of the dead
bodies removed from the wreck, and the
president thinks that in three or -four
days they will be able to render au accu
rate account OF the fatalities. The report
that there were eight dead at Piper sta
ton proves to have been incorrect. Only
two persons died there up to Door to day,
Mrs. Peter Valentine and G.. Van Lein,
of Galesburg, Ills. Three or fodr per
sons who were reported as dead, were to-
day learned to be among the wounded at
Piper City. The employees of the road
we're sent to Piper City early this morn
ing to secure the names OF the dead and
wounded. There it was found that there
were forty wounded and two dead at
Piper City.
In addition to the eighty. six or eighty
seven known to be dead, there were three
OF the wounded at Chatsworth whom the
physicians pronounced to be beyond re
covery. They lay in the town hall and
were being cared for by relatives or kind
sympathizers in every way possible
These three were Mrs G. H. Clark, of
Rootstown, O.; Mrs. Mary Naldejo, Of
Peoria; and Harry B. Lawrence, Of Bur
lington, Iowa.
The list of the wounded is necessarily
incomplete, and the full extent of inju-
ries will probably never be known. The
women of Chatsworth have done every
thing possible for the wounded people,
thirty OF whom still lie in the town hall,
and several in private houses.
At the depot and other places where
the dead lie there were many sad scenes
to day. Anxious relatives arrived from
towns along the west and began to search
for their friends among the mangled and
CHASTITY corpses. Husbands were looking
for wives, parents for children aid son
for parents.
Among the seekers was j. NJ. Kelly, Of
Breeds station, a young man looking tor
his father and uncle. He looked in vain
among the dead bodies for his relatives,
but when he appealed to the coroner he
was shown the dead body of his father,
Job p. Kelly. The son could not recog
nize the mutilated features of his father.
Later in the day he found his uncle John
B. Kelly, badly wounded lying in the
town hall. The body of Paul Sacken-
renter has not yet been certainly identi-
fed, One of his workmen, John Zeidler,
is among the killed. His head was
crushed from both sides, so hat the
features were entirely u~nrecognizable.
The body of Mrs. H. A. Mcclure and her
infant, from Keithsburg, have been
identified among the dead, lying in the
school house last night. The last body
was removed from there to day; it was
that of Mrs. Stoddard, Of Fort Madison.
Another body identified during the
night was that of Mrs. Jose Blondin, nee
Florence, of Parker's Corners, Ill. Her
husband arrived on the late train, found
her body and shipped it home. Mrs.
Blondln had with her her two little
daughters, Ida and BERTHE. The former
has one of her hips crushed, but BERTHE
is only slightly injured. Side by side in
the depot this morning lay the dead bod
les of f. r. Hill and his wife and baby,
from Berwick, III. The babe was placed
on its mothers bosom in a rough pine
box and the family sent on its return TRIP
home, Among the unclaimed and un
named is the body of a Peoria bOotblack
Al the C~OrOner's Inquest.